Gregor Horsch has been first solo-cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Ochestra since 1997. He studied in Freiburg with Christoph Henkel and at the RNCM in Manchester with Ralph Kirshbaum where he gained his diploma's with distinction.

As winner of the first Pierre Fournier Award in London (1988) and the Concours Gaspar Cassado in Florence (1990), he came to public attention with his successful debut recital in London's Wigmore Hall, an apprearance at the 1st International Cello Festival in Manchester, during the Schubert-Britten Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and with recordings for BBC Radio 3.

With the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra he has played concertos by Barber, Elgar, Schumann and Haydn, furthermore, he appeared as a soloist with conductors such as Svetlanov, Tortelier, Slatkin, Vonk, van Zweden and Gilbert. His passion for chamber music has resulted in collaboration with artists like Emmanuel Ax, Menahem Pressler, Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Nobuko Imai and Bobby McFerrin.

Gregor Horsch is a regular guest at many international festivals and his recordings of works by Röntgen
and Moór have been widely acclaimed. He has also given premières
of works by Keuris, Rihm, Kurtag and Gubaidulina.

Since 1996, Gregor Horsch has been a teacher at the conservatories of the Hague, Amsterdam and at the RNCM in Manchester. He has been invited to give masterclasses worldwide. In 2009 he has been appointed Professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Gregor Horsch plays on a cello of Giovanni Battista Rogeri from 1696 (Brescia).

Alexander Buzlov is one of the most vivid and talented cellists of the next generation, one who represents the Russian performing school with honor at the world’s leading music venues.

One of Buzlov’s most recent achievements came with his participation in the Emanuel Feuermann Cello Competition in Berlin in November 2010, at which he was awarded the Grand Prix and the Audience Award.

Alexander Buzlov was graduated from the music school and college of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire; in 2006 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire itself. At master-classes, he has received instruction from such renowned cellists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, Natalia Shakhovskaya, Boris Talalay, Eberhard Finke (Switzerland) and Bernard Greenhouse (USA).

As a student, Alexander Buzlov received grants from numerous international organisations, among them the Russian Performing Arts foundation, the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation, the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and the Nahum Guzik Foundation (USA).

He currently teaches at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire where he has his own class and is an assistant to Professor Natalia Gutman; he runs master-classes in Russia, Europe and the USA.

Alexander Buzlov won his first Grand Prix at the Mozart-96 competition in Monte Carlo at the age of thirteen. One year later the musician was awarded the Grand Prix at the Virtuosi of the 21st Century competition in Moscow. The same year, he performed at an anniversary concert marking seventy years since the birth of Mstislav Rostropovich.

Alexander Buzlov has won 1st prizes at Young Concert Artist competitions in Leipzig (2000) and New York (2001) and the Grand Prix in the categories “Cello” and “Chamber Ensemble” at the I New Names All-Russian Open Competition (Moscow, 2000); recipient of the Triumph youth prize (2003) and prize-winner at the XXXV International CompetitionJeunesses Musicales in Belgrade (1st prize and Audience Award, 2005). The musician has also received special prizes for the best performance of Pezzo capriccioso at the XII International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2002) and the Leyda Ungerer Prize at the Pablo Casals Competition in Kronberg (Germany, 2004). In 2005 he took 2nd prize at one of the most prestigious music compositions in Europe – the ARD International Cello Competition in Munich (Germany), while in 2007 he was the undoubted favorite at the XIII International Tchaikovsky Competition at which he took the Silver Medal, the prize for the best performance of a work by Tchaikovsky and the special prize of the Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya Foundation. One year later the cellist took 2nd prize at the LXIII International Cello Competition in Geneva, the oldest cello competition in Europe.

Today Alexander Buzlov performs throughout Russia and abroad; his tours have taken him to the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Israel, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Alexander Buzlov has appeared with many renowned Russian ensembles, among them the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Grand Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble, the Munich Chamber Ensemble, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Academic Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Saratov and Ulyanovsk. He has worked with conductors including Mark Gorenstein, Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Yuri Temirkanov, Konstantin Orbelian, Leonard Slatkin, Thomas Sanderling, Maria Eklund, Claudio Vandelli (Italy), Yakov Kreizberg (USA), E. Tobacco (Bulgaria) and Mitiyoshi Inoue (Japan).

As a soloist he has performed with numerous American symphony orchestras, travelling to almost each and every American state while on tour. Alexander Buzlov’s debut at the renowned Carnegie Hall took place in 2005, while May the same year saw a gala at the Lincoln Center in New York with the Orchestra of St Luke’s under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. “Of the numerous young performers who have appeared onstage in recent years with the Utah Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Buzlov is the most vivid and talented,” wrote one American newspaper in 2007.

The cellist takes part in international festivals including Musical Kremlin, Moscow Autumn, December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter and Ars Longa (Moscow), the White Nights, Arts Square and Musical Olympus (St Petersburg), festivals in Ludwigsburg and Usedom (Germany), Colmar (France), the Oleg Kagan Memorial Festivals in Moscow and Kreuth (Germany), international chamber music festivals in Giverny and Montpellier (France), Crescendo (Israel), Chanel, Ginza (Japan) and the Seiji Ozawa Academy (Switzerland).

Alexander Buzlov frequently performs in chamber ensembles with Russian, American, French and Japanese musicians and regularly gives master-classes in Russia, the USA and Slovenia. He has recorded for Russian TV and radio as well as radio stations in Germany, Switzerland, France, the USA and Austria.

Alexander Buzlov has won IIIrd prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (2015).

The Guardian describes Alissa Margulis' playing as "exceptional", Ivry Gitlis praises it as "a revelation" and Martha Argerich calls her a "strong musical personality".

Appreciated for her expressive and very emotional performances, Alissa Margulis regularly plays in important concert halls such as the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Cologne Philharmony, the Vienna Musikverein, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Zurich, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Beethovenhalle Bonn, or the Schönberg Hall in Los Angeles.

Born in Germany into a family of Russian musicians, Alissa Margulis studied in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, in Brussels with Augustin Dumay and in Vienna with Pavel Vernikov.She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists and has performed since then with numerous orchestras such as the Camerata Switzerland, Kremerata Baltica, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the SWR, NDR and the WDR Rundfunkorchester, or the Orchestre National de Lorraine among others.

She further appeared at Festivals as the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, Lockenhaus, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, in Davos, Tours, Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier or the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, among others. Every year since 2005 Alissa Margulis has been invited to perform at Martha Argerich's "Progetto" in Lugano.

During the 2012/2013 season Alissa Margulis played concerts at the Philharmonie Essen, in Tokyo or in Guebwiller, appear with the World Youth Orchestra in Rome, Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine, the Stellenbosch International ChamberMusic Festival in South Africa. Further Alissa Margulis had toured in Japan with her brother Jura Margulis and in Sweden with the Camerata Nordica in February 2013 as well as gave her debut at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest in September.

She performs chambermusic at Lars Vogt's "Spannungen" Festival in Heimbach as well as appear with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Lugano performing the Violin Concerto of A. Glazunov under the baton of Alexander Verdernikov, which is recorded as well for CD (Avanti Classics).In 2011 two highly praised CD's were released; for the Oehms Classic label she recorded together with her brother, Jura Margulis, pieces by F. Liszt for violin and piano. Together with the Camerata Switzerland under the baton of Howard Griffith Alissa Margulis recorded Mozart's Violin Concerto No.4 for Novalis.EMI Classics produced several CDs titled "Martha Argerich and Friends" in which Alissa Margulis appears in live performance.

Alissa Margulis is a title holder of many international competitions (Wieniawski, Vercelli among others) and awards, such as "Pro Europa" from the European Cultural Foundation, which was presented to her by Daniel Barenboim.